Female Fauna by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Bumped off 5. Guitar legend Hendrix 9. Ghost costume, basically 14. Place to moor 15. Cooperstown's Slaughter 16. DC Subway 17. Structure that forms Lake Mead 19. Give a keynote, say 20. Invited to dinner, perhaps 21. Iced down 22. Churchillian gesture 23. Gremlin automaker 24. Sculptures and oils 25. 1941 Gary Cooper movie 31. 36-Across parts 35. __ Solo of "Star Wars" 36. They may be lent or bent 37. Surface figure 38. The authority to act for another 40. Like __ out of hell 41. Cause of cold sweat 42. Suffix with chariot 43. Spiral-horned antelope 44. Writer with a nib 48. Caterer's vessel 49. Purge 50. Indy 500 advertiser 53. Old phone company nickname 57. In one's right mind 59. "The Audacity of Hope" author 60. Sleep interrupter, maybe 61. Nigeria neighbor 62. Malaria symptom 63. Swedish furnishings chain 64. Roofing material 65. Max, Buddy or Bugs 66. "Guarding __" (1994 MacLaine movie)

Down 1. Chilled soup served with sour cream 2. On the lam 3. Summon forth 4. "__ Only Just Begun" (Carpenters hit) 5. Composer Kern 6. Bring about 7. Castle protector 8. Doctrine suffix 9. Not at all bumpy 10. Long sandwich 11. List-ending abbr. 12. Art Deco master 13. Two-__ sloth 18. Wax-coated cheeses 21. Old buddy 24. Classic cleanser 26. Androcles' extraction 27. "Hud" Oscar winner Patricia 28. "Aba __ Honeymoon" 29. Algerian port 30. Business sign abbr. 31. Gag response, à la "Variety" 32. Three-tiered cookie 33. Belle's man 34. Bring home 38. Necklace unit 39. Trotter stopper 43. Break up, informally 45. New Orleans campus 46. Czech capital 47. One or the other 50. Plumber's tool 51. Deductions from gross weight 52. "No lo contendere" and others 53. Unruly bunches 54. Genesis son 55. Eric of "Munich" 56. Give off 57. Latvia's capital 58. Leave out 60. Catch red-handed Copyright © Fred Piscop